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Issue Details: First known date: 1992... 1992 Bait
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Notes

    • Commissioned by the Queensland Theatre Company.
    • This play completes the trilogy about the character Gordon, from McGahan's two previous novels Praise and 1988.

Production Details

    • First produced at the Metro Arts Theatre, Brisbane in 1995. Director: Shaun Charles
    • Performed again at the Metro Arts Theatre, Brisbane, 20 November - 7 December 2002. Director: Linda Hassall

  • This play is in two Acts.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 1992
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The White Earth [and] Bait Brisbane City : Playlab , 2009 Z1590279 2009 selected work drama Brisbane City : Playlab , 2009 pg. 85-143
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Related Works

y separately published work icon Praise Andrew McGahan , North Sydney : Allen and Unwin , 1992 Z563591 1992 single work novel (taught in 16 units) 'Praise is an utterly frank and darkly humorous novel about being young in the Australian of the 1990s. A time when the dole was easier to get than a job, when heroin was better known than ecstasy, and when ambition was the dirtiest of words. A time when, for two hopeless souls, sex and dependence were the only lifelines.' (from back cover)
y separately published work icon 1988 Andrew McGahan , St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1995 Z77695 1995 single work novel (taught in 4 units) 'It's the Bicentennial year and for Gorden - failed writer and bottleshop boy - it seems his life is going nowhere. It's time to escape. From his overcrowded house, from Brisbane, from Expo '88, from everything. He stumbles into Wayne who has connections in Darwin and the promise of work. So the two of them head north towards swamps and crocodiles and sandflies innumerable, in search of inspiration, and of their rightful place in the culture of a nation.' (from back cover)
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Works about this Work

Rising to the Bait Rodney Chester , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 26 October 2002; (p. 3)
Bait Bites, but the Lowest Form of Wit is Sarkies's Veronica Kelly , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 7 August 1995; (p. 13)
— Review of Bait Andrew McGahan , 1992 single work drama
McGahan Doles Out Sarcasm Lisa Yallamas , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 July 1995; (p. 16)
— Review of Bait Andrew McGahan , 1992 single work drama
Balkanising the Boards Geoffrey Milne , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Eureka Street , September vol. 5 no. 7 1995; (p. 45-46)
McGahan Doles Out Sarcasm Lisa Yallamas , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 July 1995; (p. 16)
— Review of Bait Andrew McGahan , 1992 single work drama
Bait Bites, but the Lowest Form of Wit is Sarkies's Veronica Kelly , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 7 August 1995; (p. 13)
— Review of Bait Andrew McGahan , 1992 single work drama
Balkanising the Boards Geoffrey Milne , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Eureka Street , September vol. 5 no. 7 1995; (p. 45-46)
Rising to the Bait Rodney Chester , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 26 October 2002; (p. 3)
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